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TIME, FORWARD!-Valentine Kataev- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). ''And it is not for nothing that Gorky constantly repeats. Write the history of factories and plants. . . ., The football sweater of the shock-brigader, the kerchief md ribbons of a young Communist girL the passing banner of the shock-brigade, the childish poster with its turtle or its steam engine, or the torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre...
Sleepless for 36 hours at a stretch, indefatigable Milo Reno popped up within six days at Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Des Moines, Chicago and Kankakee to recruit strikers and sympathy. He requested the NRA's approval of his banner: a green eagle clutching a pitchfork with FHA above and "We Are A Part" below. After listening to the President's radio talk to the country, promising higher commodity prices (TIME, Oct. 30) Milo Reno declared...
...McKee had served 16 weeks as Acting Mayor following James John ("Jimmy") Walker's flight from City Hall (TIME, Sept. 12, 1932). Now, having retired from politics, having refused the Fusion nomination which went to onetime Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, McKee entered the ring under an independent Democratic banner, as the "Recovery" candidate. There were two explanations offered for Joe McKee's decision to run for Mayor. The World-Telegram, Scripps-Howard crusader which had sponsored the write-in movement for him a year ago, turned bitterly against its former champion, denounced him for splitting the Reform ticket...
...political philosophy. The Roscoe Pound of a golden prime was wont to insist that law was in really social engineering; now he talks ponderously of the common courts and of their law which must chiefly enforce our security. When the arch-apostle of social jurisprudence has left his banner, what moulding, horrible depths of legalism must the Supreme Court contain, and what small hope for the farsighted and illegal cauterizer of our civil institutions...
This movie begins with a burial service for the hero, a director's stunt devised not only to rob the audience of its just reward but to rehabilitate and glorify the old-time cut back under the banner "Narratage," "Narratage," however, is more than stunt; it is a diabolical infliction. Henry, Caspar Milquetoast apologist to Mr. Tom Garner, explains to his wife that Tom Garner explains to his wife that Tom Garner was more than a Legree, more than the faithless, cruci, relentless devil, whose feet the world licked, whose name the world cursed. And where Henry's spirit listeth...